Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
Bernard "Bernie" Sandersis an American politician, serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. He has always caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously served for two years as chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. He publicly identified...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 September 1941
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important. You have war and peace issues, economic priority issues, which are very important. And on those issues you can bring together coalitions, which redefine the normal paradigm which a lot of the corporate media creates when they talk about liberal and conservative.
Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.
I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support.
States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.
There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.
The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.